Variety
Expectations that Murphy's street brand of rebelliousness would devastate staid and glittery Beverly Hills are not entirely met in a film that grows increasingly dramatic.
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Beverly Hills Cop
Eddie Murphy - already famous, but on the cusp of international stardom with this role - is tough-talking Detroit cop Axel Foley in this hit '80s action comedy. Foley heads to posh, racist Beverly Hills in his beat-up Chevy Nova to investigate a friend's murder. Soon he realises he's stumbled onto something much more complicated. Judge Reinhold is bungling rookie Billy, who joins the fish-out-of-water caper to help Foley.
1984Rating: M105 minsUSA
ActionComedy
- Director:
- Martin Brest ('Scene of a Woman', 'Gigli')
- Writer:
- Daniel Petrie Jr.Danilo Bach
- Cast:
- Eddie MurphyJudge ReinholdJohn AshtonLisa EilbacherRonny CoxSteven BerkoffJames RussoJonathan BanksPaul ReiserDamon Wayans
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Roger Ebert
Murphy looks like the latest victim of the Star Magic Syndrome, in which it is assumed that a movie will be a hit simply because it stars an enormously talented person.
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